OBFUSCATE

ob·fus·cate: render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy. to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information. to darken. Let’s use this cool sounding and very relevant word in a sentence, as it pertains to the Republican puppets, bribed, owned and operated by the Putin/Trump Crime Family, shall we: Okay! Let’s do it, America! (Just a warning for the MAGA minded minions, the word OBFUSCATE,  can sound like one of those dirty words your Jesus won’t like, or maybe even one of those Ukrainian words, which you will like because right now, Trump and Company has you so confused as to who is the good guy and who is the bad guy…that YOU are certain it must be those UKRAINIANS, who of course were working for the Clinton’s and the DNC!

So let me explain this to you, of the Cro-Magnon mindset, in the lowest form of intelligent sentence structure as possible. Whenever you hear a Tea Bagger (yep they are back and better than ever at licking the dripping drool from the low hanging fruit of the Trump Stump, or a Tea-Publican, or okay the American Christian Evangelical Taliban, when you see them try to avoid any answer as to the various and numerous crimes committed by the Con Artist formally known as Trump, either by head butting a camera, rushing to an elevator, pushing their aides in front of them, or pretending they have become mute, their inaction or stupid reactions are, each and every one of them OBFUSCATING.  Here is an easier example for those of you who (still remain astonished that the earth IS not flat, women Are not chattel, the Holocaust was REAL, GUNS kill, it is the people using the GUNS that make them kill, and in fact, Jesus was a brown-skinned Jew!) When one of your Racist, bribed or blackmailed politicians most like gerrymandered into office, blames the entire universe, except Trump for collusion, and quid Pro Quo, they too by denying any truth, are doing the fine dance of one who OBFUSCATES!

Rudy Giuliani is running a shadow government…HE is the DEEP State…OMG, not Mayor Rudy the hero of 9/11…Trump has ignored any protocol or procedure or professionalism permitting the Agencies of this Government to keep us safe…OMG, it’s not the Socialist Dems…Sean Hannity the entertainer, not elected, not selected, not even patriotic is deciding for Trump how the ways of the world should be handles…OMG, it's not George Soros…MAGA’s you are dupes being duped because you are all either stupid as shit ort just Racist as shit. You ARE the enemy of the state…OMG, not Pelosi or Schiff or Schumer. AND for me, you are scarier than the Stephen King’s Clown from the novel IT, because you are living breathing Molotov cocktails ready to explode. Your hero’s only job to keep you in place is to OBFUSCATE!

100 Bottles of beer

100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, one of the most irritating, yet time reduction songs I have ever had the privilege of hating while loving at the same time. The song seems endless, and when I was a counselor and the first time campers were a little anxious about a bus ride, or a walk in the woods to discover their plot for a campout, 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, was a lifesaver…however unlike many a defibrillator, once used, it must be recharged so the next time it is able to save a life, 100 of Bottles of Beer on the Wall,  can never be used for returning campers, and IS not a lifesaver and is immediately found to be a fraud of a song! No matter how well behaved your campers were, once you introduce the idea of wasting away time by singing 100 Bottle of Beer on the Wall, the boos from the peanut gallery become quite overwhelming. 

I hear that haunting melody run through my head, maybe the better word is rummage through my head, each time there is a new subpoena issued and ignored, a new version of what a quid pro quo is and isn’t, one more Cabinet member accused of fraud or felony, a Trump spawn pretending that fame and wealth, crime and con were not handed to them on a silver spoon, and that the latest polling is showing this or that Dem in the lead, OR that no matter what the nation as a whole gives one shit about the treason of Trump, because they still believe he is the Golden Child. Back to the song 100 Bottles of Beer on the wall! I have had few travels on busses or hikes or moving from one place to another where we actually finished the son with No Bottles of Beer on the Wall, or at least the entirety of the group singing it. I have been hearing 100 Bottles of Beer on the wall since 2016, over and over and over.

I believe Speaker Pelosi is as smart a politician as they make them, I admire Rep Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler, I know, at least I pray they KNOW exactly how timing should be paced to IMPEACH and REMOVE Trump, but HONEST TO GOD  (The God I believe in, not the one who makes house calls to perverted misogynists homophobes or Evangelical American Taliban), I am dying here. Each day something Obama did well, is attacked and tried to be erased. Each day more real people have come forward to explain the shadow government run by Giuliani or Barr. Each day another pompous PR seeking GOP jerk like Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows or Matt Gaetz try and highjack the checks and balances of government. Each day Senators, like, McConnell/Graham/Rubio/Cruz/Burr paid and profiting from Russian Oligarch change their stories, hoping truth is never in the final ending. Each day Trump remains in office, all I hear is the song 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall. I am Jewish, but IS THIS Purgatory?

mendacity

MENDACITY: UNTRUTHFULNESS

Well, now, Trump the weather GURU, at the ready to place his tiny fingers on the trigger of his Twitter account, has made it abundantly clear that Governor Gavin Newsom of California, knows little about handling fires, nothing about water management, and by all means as a Democrat in a very Blue State (Thank God), SHALL be punished enhance with the mighty forces, Putin and the Republican Gaggle of Oligarchs has provided him. Let your people of California perish in Wild Fires, triumphs Trump. Texas, floodwaters are now as common as the humidity in that state, hurricanes batter Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, but somehow those governors all good ole’ Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, and trump has no GURU weather advice for these scoundrels, because they live in BRIGHT red nation-states, and Trump has no reason to call them out, until one day, one or two Democrats get in Trumps way. Oh yeah, how do the Governors, of Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, let those nasty tornados come whipping by constantly and continuously year after year tear up neighborhoods, flatten entire towns. Guess, Trump overlooked his weather GURU-NESS, in those cases. Yeah, I know its Trump, full of MENDACITY.

ABROGATE: to treat as nonexistent: to fail to do what is required by (something, such as a responsibility)

Lots of hubbub recently regarding cyber-security. NO, NO, NO…not Election-related cybersecurity (or the lack thereof, that would have immediate and meaningful attention by the government.) It seems two opposites Senator Chuckie(I wear my magnifier glasses low on my nose so it makes me look as if I am interested in SOMETHING), and Senator Tom (I went behind Obama’s back and stabbed him in the back so many times my fingers remain red)Cotton are in a tither or is it tizzy, regarding Americans personal information being handled by foreign companies who manage, own or operate all these new TECH devices. They are also angry with APPLE, have now left Markie Zuckerberg off the hook, cause FACEBOOK has embraced Breibart as factual news…both men feign the worry about the average Americans' personal information. I might be excited about this if it was not for ONE major item, named TRUMP! You think it really mattes how many times I looked up the term “fucking douchebag,” during Trump’s placement in office by Putin…when, in fact, TRUMP with the power of the Executive Branch knows where almost every secret, secret code, and secrets about secrets is hidden. The real CYBER-SECURITY danger is TRUMP. Congress has done a wonderful job of ABROGATE the idea of the Russian Agent in the Oval Office.

EVADE implies adroitness, ingenuity, or lack of scruple in escaping or avoiding.

In the movie THE GRADUATE, Mr. Robinson says to a young Dustin Hoffman, I have one word for you, son, PLASTICS. In the latest episode of the TRUMP-LIGHT-ZONE, that word is UKRAINE. Now, according to the clown in the musical box which seems to be popping up more and more, Trump has now declared Ukraine as corrupt. This IS now, but before now, which we will refer to as then, Trump tried his very best art of the deal to build a resort in Ukraine. Now Trump uses five words to discuss Ukraine, the first consists of: “There Was NO Quid  Pro Quo (I wonder how long it took either Jared/Ivanka or Stephen Miller to explain that phrase), and the other favorite words Trump now uses regarding Ukraine are “It Was A Perfect Conversation!”  On and on and on, did I mention and on and on… We permit Trump to EVADE any responsibility, pretending that even IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY matters.

BACK TO BEFORE

“There was a time our happiness seemed never-ending, I was so sure that where we were headed was right. Life was a road so certain and straight and unbending, Our little road with never a crossroad in sight. Back in the days when we spoke in civilized voices. Women in white and sturdy young men at the oar. Back in the days when I let you make all my choices. We can never go back to before.”(‘Back to Before/Ragtime Musical/Lynn Ahrens) One more well dressed, I have just written a book, I very recently began my own startup company, look at the cacophony of genders and colors and young and old, I know all, but actually know nothing, I have spoken to sources, oops, time for a break, GAGGLE of Talking Heads, trying to ‘splain to me the simple fact that with Trump, from the very beginning of his announcement to run for office,  to the very last lie or Tweet, that in fact, we have a dolt, IS NEWS, and is manipulated by money, owned and operated by Putin, shitting on the constitution of which he has never read nor believes…HAS one iota of relevance to whatever the fuck he wishes to do and DOES…I think I will internally combust! The 3 million or more vote lead by Hillary, the unexplained vote count of certain states with just enough of a percentage of majority of votes in those states (The antiquated Electoral College), hacked and highjacked by whomever it be, the Russians, or the Republicans, and somehow we are still debating the IMPEACHMENT of Trump. We never let our babies walk around with poop in their diaper, the first reason, it is uncomfortable for the baby, second, it is unhealthy for the baby and third, it stinks and stinks and stinks…we wipe the shit and change the diaper…those of us who are compassionate and responsible and mature adults!

“There are people out there, unafraid of revealing, That they might have a feeling, Or they might have been wrong. There are people out there, unafraid to feel sorrow, Unafraid of tomorrow. Unafraid to be weak. Unafraid to be strong.” (‘Back to Before/Ragtime Musical/Lynn Ahrens)Fuck each and every so-called Christian Evangelical American Taliban Pay to Pray, and Pray on the insecure, inferiority complexed fool, and double FUCK the hypocritical gerrymandered, bribed by Lobbyists, and scared shitless by some amorphous idea that they will be ‘” PRIMARIED,” politicians who live off the dole of the taxpayer, yet provide the same taxpayer with the same socialistic perks they receive. Triple FUCK both groups for pretending that Trump is above any law, both SECULAR and PAROCHIAL! And quadruple the FUCK as the pundits report on nothing but the same ringing of the hands just so they can keep their paychecks flowing…as rivers of corrupt, crime and criminality flow freely flooding the freedom of this nation!

“There was a time when you were the person in motion. I was your wife, it never occurred to want more. You were my sky, my moon, my stars, and my ocean. We can never go back to before. We can never go back to before.” (‘Back to Before/Ragtime Musical/Lynn Ahrens)My closet has burned down, it was a sad and dreary cave. The women in my life, be they family or friends, or coworkers are as equal as I am and have the same freedom of choice regarding their bodies as I do! My friends and family of color, my friends who just happen to be immigrants, my friends and family who may love someone of the same-sex, or love no one at all WILL enjoy the possibilities this nation CAN offer. BUT I will NO LONGER, debate, or even try to find a consensus, with ANYONE who does not agree with those terms. I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO BEFORE! 

Mad Cow

And on Saturday, November 2, 2019, in the city I find myself living, (I am proudly from Pittsburgh, and always will be), at 6:29 Pacific Coast Time, as I walked home from the gym, listening to music from my very favorite and sadly NOW relevant Musical called “Ragtime”, I passed yet another person, living on the streets, carrying as many plastic bags as possible, his T-shirt might have had some words on it, but the smudges were too prevalent and muddied for me to read, his pants had rips on both legs, and I am certain from the belt he used, it too had no more room for one more hole to be cut into it for his body was wasted way too much for the belt to be of use. He did not ask for money, but I felt it necessary to just hand him some and walk away as fast as I could, because I did not want him to feel ashamed, and I did not want any great honor bestowed upon me for just reacting HUMAN!

In my hurry, to avoid being thanked,  it seems I had not had enough time to avoid two young women walking toward me, both on their phones. I came awfully close to tripping on one while the other shouted “oh gross,” on the phone. The OTHER, continued, not stopping to help her friend who had tripped, by saying on the phone, “this old homeless guy almost touched Elaine…” Elaine, I suppose the one who tripped, still holding the phone, but placing it to her side, looked at me and said “Really!”  Before I explain both my verbal and physical reaction, I will describe the clothes these young LA women were wearing, because honestly what they were wearing IS the point of this RANT. Both young women were wearing very finely cut jeans, the precision was perfect, and the artistry amazing! (Kudos to the designer who must have been laughing out loud as he or she prepared cut up jeans selling for at least $150). Both women were also wearing T-shirts, with no muddied muted spot, and each woman’s T-Shirt read, “Love it, We Live it!”

Now back to ME, and my Trumpian Mad Cow Mood, where the wealth discrepancy, has grown and grown, (and the amazing thing is that the poorest of the poor are unaware of just how much poverty-ridden they have become, but since Racism “trumps”, fundamental needs, they could give a fuck) and in one instant I run into opposite land. Now, I can no longer give a shit, let alone two shits…To the “oh gross woman, I said, ask your parents why they insisted on having you even though the abortion failed…to the Elaine person, I stood still and said, Gurl, you know you want this!” I felt immature and walked away, but I had a HUGE smile on my face. I have grown angry, bitter, full of angst, pissed off, and totally confused with the world in which I find myself living. And I will NOT take it anymore! Love and Kisses, Gerry Buncher  

it don't mean a thing

“And the bad guy always ends up getting away with, WHAT the good guy never would do!” Louie Gohmert, Rep from Texas 1^st Congressional District (proud Tea Party member, which means any law he jest’ don’t like is a Socialist plot), Steve King, Rep from Iowa 5^th Congressional District (part of the plot to redistrict and restrict democracy in action), and Robert James Jeffress Junior, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Dallas (the kind of Pastor with his own TV show in which he hocks snake oil, and claims Jesus has assured him that Donald the Adulterous Trump is  Christ’s bud), are a part of a bevy of bullies who have already collected their Assault weapons, declaring that if Trump the Pure, is knocked out of office by the laws of the Constitution, or the Democratic process of one-person-one-vote, THAT  there will be a Civil War a Brewin’, and the Libertards, the Democrat Socialists, will be the reason for such a TERRIBLE, but Christ permitted action to take place. Two, three, even a lifetime of Ruler of the US of A is what these three dudes, except Trump to become, and if you claim to be a real American, you too understand that bigotry, bias, bogus and the boggy man are the four Horsemen that Make America Great…forever!  

“And it seems, the badest assed anti-Semites always turns out to be the Jew.” Sheldon Adelson (a Casino Czar, and aficionado of everything Israel Jewish, but not necessarily American Jewish, and his wife Mariam (recipient of the Medal of Freedom, provided by Trump for providing his PAC with over 100 million dollars), Bernie Marcus (co-founder of Home Depot, and provider for the barrier of freedom known as the Trump Wall), Stephen Miller (grandson of Holocaust survivors who, if they hadn’t immigrated to the US, might not have ever been conceived, and the guy voted most likely to hate anyone),Prince Jared Kushner/Princess (In converted to Judaism but my father has no idea), and Chuckie (The Felon) Kushner, all on the take in the palm of the hands of murderous dictators such as Vladimir Putin, and of course the Assassin Mohammed bin Salman, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (let me borrow Air Force two or Three to take my wife on a tax payer anniversary flight), all Jewish Americans, apparently agree on a few things, A) there are good Nazi’s B) Money is the Krypton against White Nationalists hate and C) there is nothing to understand from the history of the Hitler and his henchmen Third Reich regarding the atrocities and discrimination, torture and murder toward minorities and of course Jews!

“Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party, is so Mid-Century, and the 21^st Century embraces oodles of money and blockbuster bushels of blackmail the Communists now enjoy, so lets party with them.” #Moscow Mitch, Little Lindsey Graham or as he is now fondly referred to as Leningrad Lindsey, Marco ( I hate being a Senator, but oops FOX News didn’t want to hire me, so now I love being a Russian Agent Senator) Rubio. William Barr/Mike Pompeo lets first ask Putin his plans on law and order and world affairs, and last but not least, and not the last of the GOP, Randy (let people die because of expensive medical bills, its too socialistic to feed them, house them or keep them healthy, isn’t that what Jesus said he wanted)Paul. All of the above have made it an effort t accept and enjoy and enhance their political careers with the money from Oligarchs…makes one wonder, just how many more millionaires the Communist State of Russia seems to have!

“History is so yesterday, it is made up of a bunch of words, and old fashioned deeds”, or as Duke Ellington once wrote, “Yes, it don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing…” 

money, money

18 U.S.C. § 201(c) makes it a crime to offer or accept a gratuity. A gratuity is a thing of value given “for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by” a public official. Like the federal bribery statute, Section 201(c) applies only to federal public officials. Bribery refers to the offering, giving, soliciting, or receiving of any item of value as a means of influencing the actions of an individual holding a public or legal duty. ... Solicitation of a bribe also constitutes a crime and is completed regardless of whether the solicitation results in the receipt of a valuable gift. The Senate sits as a High Court of Impeachment in which senators consider evidence, hear witnesses, and vote to acquit or convict the impeached official. ... The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office. To ensure that jurors do not behave in a biased way and corrupt the operation of justice, there are strict laws regarding bribery of jurors. Both those who offer bribes, as well as jurors and others who accept or solicit bribes, can face harsh consequences under the law. It is imperative that any juror who is accused of bribery make smart choices about defending himself from serious accusations.

“…Money makes the world go around The world go around The world go around Money makes the world go around, A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound A buck or a pound A buck or a pound Is all that makes the world go around That clinking clanking sound Can make the world go 'round…” (Money Song/John Kander) It is no longer a dark dreary, dreadful, demonized dilemma, it is no longer the stories you hear of the Mafioso bosses, bullying and beating up the little shop keepers, it is no longer the eyewitnesses to graft and greed, either being found bound with cement applied to their feet or at the bottom of a river, and it is NO LONGER, a secret that Trump has once again participated in Quid Pro Quo, in maintaining an allegiance derived by dollar bills only, as a façade for loyalty, but nothing more than a lawless illegal bribe…and it comes as no surprise that politicians from either party, BUT in PARTICULAR, the Republican/Russian Party, THIS YEAR, are on the take, taking their money to the bank, and ready to take American citizens on a trip to the Laundromat located in some offshore island’s bank!

“…If you haven't any coal in the stove And you freeze in the winter And you curse on the wind At your fate When you haven't any shoes On your feet And your coat's thin as paper And you look thirty pounds Underweight When you go to get a word of advice From the fat little pastor He will tell you to love evermore But when hunger comes a rap Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat at the window That clinking Clanking sound of Money, money, money, money, money, money, Money, money, money, money, money, money…” (Money Song/John Kander) Senators will become a Jury, as is written in the Constitution, and will decide the fate of Trump once the House of Representatives proceed forward with IMPEACHMENT. Guilty as Hell, knowing that His actions and behavior have never once aligned with the purpose or propriety of the Constitution (honestly for the majority of Republicans the only thing they think the Constitution contains is “Thou Shall Own Guns”,) Trump, BEING Trump (and I am so sick and tired of that lame excuse) is IN the process o bribing his Jury Pool! Because Trump so far,  has lived a life in which he can pick and choose which laws to obey or ignore, he is blatantly offering Senators like Gardner of Colorado, Ernst of Iowa, and Tillis of North Carolina, and quietly I am certain Aunt Bea (Susie Collins) of Maine money for their campaigns. There may be another half dozen Senators whose Constituents have finally caught on to the snake oil being sold, in their states, by the GOP Senators, so more bribes will be handed out. (Lite in the Loafers Lindsey, #Moscow Mitch, Little Marco and the Great Pretender of Libertarianism Paul, are not the list because they have their own Russian Oligarch money). 

Money Makes the World Go Round, Trump has been caught in the act of having Money speak for him, the Senate is to act as a Jury regarding Quid Pro Quo, but out in the open, in front of our American Eyes, Senators who are to judge guilt from innocence, are being tested on their own GUILT or INNOCENCE…AMAZING, to say the least, FUCKED UP to say the most!